Besides its privileged geographical position, geocentric in global sea routes, and its natural conditions of shelter that allow it to be consider as a safe port, if there is anything that characterizes the Port of Vigo is its status as a highly specialized in the movement of general merchandise diverse high-valued, being almost 90% of goods moving through Vigo, general cargo, and almost 60% of it, in containers. It also has terminals specialized in ro-ro traffic, being, in fact, the 2nd. Spanish port in traffic of new vehicles, and the first in the ro-ro operation in the coastal strip of the entire Atlantic side of the peninsula and the Cantabrian coast.
The high economic value of the goods is explained through this traffic and from of automotive parts, as well as fish products, frozen, fresh and processed - canned -, that make the Port of Vigo, if not the most important, one of the major fishing ports around the world in the traffic of fishing for human consumption, both in terms of quantity and quality.
With a prime location on the sea routes, the Port of Vigo has nearly 100 regular lines to major destinations in Northern Europe and America. Of these, highlight the lines of ro-ro traffic, at european level, developing a real short sea transport or short sea shipping - a total of six lines-, as well as at transoceanic level, with four lines of this kind in 2009. Some of these lines are and have been the prelude to the upcoming first motorway of the sea at the european level, officially recognized as such.
The port of Vigo stands out for the quality of its port services, offered by a highly specialized port staff. There are five companies providing basic port service of loading and unloading, and one of each of the other services provided in our port: pilotage, towing, docking and undocking, collection of ship-generated liquid waste and collection of ship-generated solid waste, this latter service in which two companies are already registered.
